Dudes, it’s about the advent of synergetic social engineering. Which is lovingly backwards compatible to the current systems of finance.

Every big change in history is accompanied by a change in the way money is distributed and perceived. Change that, using all the wonderful web tools we have at our disposal, and you have a blueprint for paranoia transcendence, on a massive scale. Life Game perception, Christ consciousness, the whole enchilada. I want my reborn society to rawk! Physically and Metaphysically.

The current system is left-hemisphere heavy; the new system is broad and in sync between our individual and collective selves. The problems of hyperrational culture is abundantly clear from Curtis’ Century of the Self; there is a hierarchical system of control on top of the irrational. Both could probably flourish much better when we see them as a quantum ‘pump’ that works optimally in tandem, as in Vernon Woolf’s holodynamics: left=rational/linear/literal/masculine, right=intuitive/nonlinear/figurative/feminine.

It might not be true per se, but the list of interesting features you can list for both hemispheres does make thinking about these things a lot more integrative and useful. Especially when you consider the possibility of a ‘holodynamic’ currency: what if we added a feminine aspect to this obviously hypermasculine money system, and made it work really well. For us and everyone. It might even be fun, effortless: Ingrid Bacci would agree.

Could it be that our pervasive, virtual-reality money system as Douglas described so well in his Arthur Mag column turns out to be a blessing in disguise? If we really play with it, it will offer us it’s *huge* installed user base, and open up its APIs. Then we can party, *all of us*

Currency may just be the typical pivot point between philosophy and social engineering, and this too is now becoming a truly distributed phenomenon.

I wanna see if we can get The Netherlands to be a proving ground for something like this. Doug, how is your Huizinga thing coming along? Did you do your thesis on him already? I can’t remember.

Over and out, thank you very much for the collaboration impulse and space